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Calendar of early American prints, Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1937

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-273791

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Description

The calendar has the following prints: 1) Boston Harbor, 1840 2) Sleighing in New York (1855) 3) White's Great Cattle Show and Procession (1821) 4) Kansas City, 1855 5) Across the continent 6) Cincinnati, 1855 7) Independence Hall Philadelphia 8) A steamboat race on the Mississippi 9) Old Fort Dearborn Chicago (1857) 10) Baltimore, 1830 11) San Francisco, 1849 12) The far west. This calendar was sent to a customer with New Year greetings for 1937 by Herford P. Kenyon, 30 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
insurance
printers (people)
printmaking
sleighs
steamboats
sailboats
stagecoaches
railroads
transportation
calendars

Physical Description

1 calendar ; 13 3/4 x 21 1/4

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.13.07.002

Image Dimensions

13 3/4 x 21 1/4 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Lorna Condon, 14 May 2007.

Places

Philadelphia (Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Boston Harbor (Massachusetts) [harbor]
Kansas City (Wyandotte county, Kansas)
Cincinnati (Hamilton county, Ohio)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Baltimore (Baltimore Independent City, Maryland)
San Francisco (San Francisco county, California)
New York City (New York state)

Record Details

Originator

Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia (Publisher)

Material Type

calendars

Other People

Bennett, W. J. (William James), 1787-1844
Benecke, Theodore
Krimmel, John Lewis, 1786-1821
Haugg, Louis, active 1856-1894
Schile, A.
Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Fuller, George, 1822-1884
Weingartner, A.
Bennett, W. J. (William James), 1787-1844

Other Organizations

E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm)
Vincent Brooks, Day & Son

Subjects

State Street (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

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